Re: Changing top level files and include/ files over to GPLv3

Mike Stump
2007-07-06T20:51:06Z

On Jul 6, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> I do hope the FSF answer the backporting question
> <http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2007-07/msg00057.html> sooner
> rather
> than later.

I'd hope to have an answer to the backport question before we start
changing files. I'd hope that we'd change gcc first, then src. If
the FSF would just say, sure, you can drag fixes, patches and
improvements from the FSF gcc repository under GPLv3 back to GPLv2
vendor gcc release branches for the next year or two and those can be
released under the GPLv2, I think that would make things easier to
deal with. After two years, I'd expect that most of the vendors
would have cycled away from older compilers. However, some people,
like the embedded types can hang on to older compilers for longer
than you'd expect.

I'd look to the SC on guidance on when and how we start cutting over.